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Agricultural Biodiversity
APRIL 9, 2025
So let me quickly point to new spatial datasets on the world’s soils and agro-ecological zonation , the extent of cropland in Africa , and — why not? — the global distribution of cattle, goats, sheep and horses.
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Agric4profits
APRIL 6, 2025
This article discusses the various breeds of cattle with a particular focus on tropical Nigerian breeds. Cattle breeds vary from one region or ecological zone to another, having adapted to the specific conditions of those zones.
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Agric4profits
JANUARY 27, 2025
Breeds of cattle differ from region and from one ecological zone to another, acclimatized to the specific zones or regions. It is… Read More » Nigeria Breeds of Cattle It is… Read More » Nigeria Breeds of Cattle
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Agric4profits
JULY 20, 2023
Cattle resources are mainly concentrated in the Sudan, Southern Guinea, Northern Guinea and the Sahel ecological zones in a descending order of distribution.
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Caff
JANUARY 7, 2025
As a participant in the BIOS program run by the Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Russ collaborated with fellow orchard farmers to share best practices for ecological farming, furthering his commitment to environmental stewardship.
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Western FarmPress
APRIL 3, 2024
Matching herds to landscape can support animal growth and ecological needs.
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The Lunatic Farmer
APRIL 14, 2025
I did a live audience-driven economic comparison between growing corn and cows and cattle beat corn by about $200 an acre. Even supposed conservation grants hurt the ecology. Iowa imports 95 percent of its food. Only 5 percent of what Iowans eat is grown, processed, packaged, and sold in the state. It's all negative.
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Food Politics
MARCH 7, 2024
Over the past eight years, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) has produced industry-backed lesson plans, learning resources, in-person events, and webinars as part of a program to boost the cattle industry’s reputation. What is the AFBFA? What does this program teach? Again, this is a USDA-sponsored checkoff program.
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UnderstandingAg
MARCH 31, 2025
There are differences in the way cattle are grazed and produced, just as there are differences in the way crops are produced. Those differences have significant impacts, either good or bad.
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Sustainable Food Trust
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Look at the OS map for the area surrounding our farm in Highland Perthshire, and it is littered with Gaelic placenames related to the keeping of cattle and goats. Sadly, decades of agricultural intensification mean that the biodiversity benefits of well-managed grazing have, in all too many instances, been lost.
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UnderstandingAg
APRIL 3, 2025
Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Cropland was seeded back to grass in 2014, and cattle were grazed during the 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. Its much more complex than that.
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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
They offer valuable resources and practical solutions for organic and transitioning producers, as well as conventional producers interested in ecologically and economically sound practices. These findings can inform breeding programs for improved animal health in organic systems.
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Agricultural Biodiversity
JUNE 11, 2023
Plant domestication and agricultural ecologies. A third of agricultural production occurs in sites of high biodiversity conservation priority, with cattle, maize, rice, and soybean posing the greatest threat and sugar beet, pearl millet, and sunflower the lowest. Even more than all the CWRs we did.
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Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
More than 70 percent of North America’s biodiversity-rich prairies have been replaced with wheat, soy, corn, alfalfa and canola, primarily used as cattle feed. The societal cost, meaning the hidden costs associated with poor labor conditions such as child labor or unlivable wages, of our food supply chains is estimated at around $100 billion.
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Civil Eats
MARCH 11, 2025
And methane emissions from ruminants, like cattle, are another significant source of climate impacts. Fossil fuels have enabled us to soar past our ecological limits. Mismanaged farm waste on CAFOs has a climate toll as well, responsible for as much as 7 percent of global farming emissions.
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The Lunatic Farmer
JULY 1, 2024
He’s worked in half the countries on the planet throughout his lifetime and knows how to get you water where it’s scarce; how to get you trees where you need them; how to integrate design and ecology to move your landscape to a new level of efficiency and productivity. He’s a landscape jedi. A veritable genius.
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Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
The Brewers run cattle and grow some alfalfa across 12,000 acres of grassland that’s a combination of owned land, leased tribal land, and federal trust land. Encompassing part of the 1.4-million-acre million-acre Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation , where she grew up, the county is among the poorest areas in the United States.
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RR2CS
APRIL 18, 2022
Today, Rod and family raise Angus cattle and a flock of Katahdin sheep on open native and annual forage pastures. Cattle + Crops for Soil Health & Protecting Vital Watersheds One of the strategies implemented at Valley View Ranch is integrating livestock management with crop management, says Rod.
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The Lunatic Farmer
JANUARY 15, 2024
Kit Pharo, founder of Pharo Cattle Company , is America’s largest grass-based seedstock producer. As a renowned environmentalist, his cattle farm coupled with ornithology give him unique authenticity in the ecology-farming debate. You’ll never think about soil the same way after listening to him.
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ATTRA
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
The Center for Grazinglands and Ranch Management is a coordinated, system-wide effort at Texas A&M aimed at safeguarding the ecologic and economic resiliency of grazing-land resources and ranching operations.
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Modern Farmer
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The Joia Food & Fiber Farm farmstead pictured with sheep, sheepdogs, and cattle grazing. In addition to organic practices including composting and perennial cover crops, he added a silvopasture for his grass-fed cattle. Elderberry, becoming popular as a hedgerow crop, provides both farm income and ecological benefits.
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Sustainable Food Trust
APRIL 10, 2024
It’s now well recognised that soil is significantly affected by the presence of MPs in the soil environment and they are currently, an “ emerging contaminant ” of concern – i.e. any synthetic or natural chemicals or microorganisms that are not widely monitored and can cause known or unknown ecological or human health effects.
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The Lunatic Farmer
JULY 20, 2022
Are you interested in how to have a more ecologically and economically enriching grass farming experience? Steve Kenyon, farm business guru, who doesn’t really own land or cattle but successfully leaped into full-time farming more than a decade ago on rented land with custom-grazing agreements.
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Civil Eats
APRIL 22, 2024
The isolation of this ecologically rich archipelago of peaks, located in a “sea” of desert that stretches from northern Mexico into southern Arizona, means that plants grow here that don’t grow anywhere else.
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The Lunatic Farmer
JANUARY 4, 2022
Whatever your position on climate movement, this is yet another confirmation that nature provides us with all the tools necessary to live abundantly without sacrificing ecology. Or cattle feedlots? I suggest that instead of abundance requiring eliminating cows, can't we pick something better to eliminate? Like glyphosate?
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Wisconsin Farmers Union
OCTOBER 9, 2024
“Though I grew up on the north side of Appleton, every weekend and during the summers we had this entire rural experience watching the cows come and go as part of my grandfather’s cattle dealing business. She had an emphasis in Ecological Restoration of Wetlands and Prairie.
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Caff
MAY 31, 2023
We kicked off the event with some background on the history of the Locke Ranch, which used to be a cattle ranch before it was a walnut orchard. Attendees were treated to a walk through the orchard with Chris and Christy Locke, who were participants in the original BIOS project over twenty years ago.
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Modern Farmer
AUGUST 29, 2023
Several classes discuss using ecology principles to inhibit or get rid of weeds, for example. On the back 16 acres of Walla Walla Community College, 30 Red Angus cows stand munching on hairy vetch, ryegrass and other cover crops that were planted to help restore the soil.
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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
JULY 14, 2023
However, as with all social-ecological systems , change in any part of the system necessarily requires or causes change in other parts of the system. Who manages land determines which scientific perspectives, crop choices, traditions, and skills shape the landscape, with profound implications for its ecological sustainability.
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CalCAN
MARCH 27, 2023
Prescribed grazing is a versatile and ecologically-based wildfire mitigation strategy with well-documented co-benefits including carbon sequestration, native plant and habitat restoration, and the production of local food and fiber. Wildcat Canyon Regional Park above the Berkeley Hills. Learn more here.
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Agwired
AUGUST 13, 2024
Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification is an easy and effective way to pursue continued education in the cattle business. United States Department of Agriculture scientists have identified potential ecological benefits of strategically applied livestock grazing in sagebrush communities across U.S. western rangelands.
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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
DECEMBER 8, 2023
Cattle grazing a warm season cover crop on Vilicus Farms (Photo Credit: Vilicus Farms) On August 16, 2022 when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, it solidified an historic investment in addressing the climate crisis and reflected key priorities lifted up by the farmers and communities that NSAC’s members serve.
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Caff
MAY 2, 2022
Instead, I walked beans, fed cattle, ate fresh picked sweet corn and went fishing in the pond. In addition to working my farm, I also run a farmer training program and Ag education center, the Ecological Agriculture Training and Cultural Center in Norco. I never wanted to go.
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Agritecture Blog
MAY 12, 2023
Local residents have been working to restore and conserve the deforested land through sustainable, ecologically-oriented farming methods. Visitors to the rural area will notice that cattle ranches dominate the landscape, once covered by Amazonian forests. Many people ran out of water, including cattle ranches in the region.
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Sustainable Food Trust
JUNE 28, 2023
But as we understand ecological systems better, we have come to realise that, while they can be very resilient, at some level of degradation they reach tipping points at which they flip into new states far less conducive to human life. Our cattle are outside all year, and we don’t feed any grain.
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Agritecture Blog
MARCH 30, 2023
Often in the form of guaranteed minimum prices, these interventions create artificial demand for commodities like corn, and incentivize farmers to plant “fencerow to fencerow”, even when it might not otherwise be economically or ecologically sensible to do so.
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Civil Eats
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
based Vence , which was acquired by veterinary pharmaceutical giant Merck Animal Health in 2022, has been slowly rolling out a similar system on larger cattle ranches across the West since 2019. Nofence’s collars cost $299 each for cattle and $199 for goats or sheep, and come with a five-year lifespan.
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Civil Eats
JANUARY 31, 2024
That’s how, a year later, he ended up at the largest cattle ranch in Montana, where the only thing more vast than its approximately 380,000 acres is the wealth and power of the man who owns it: one Rupert Murdoch. How do you do that and create ecological change, economic value, and social benefit? But they have to be big.
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Civil Eats
MAY 15, 2024
As federal officials grapple with how to contain the highly contagious strain of avian flu that has infected chickens, turkeys, and dairy cattle on farms across the U.S., Geological Survey’s Western Ecological Research Center. It also has spread to the cattle industry, infecting 16 herds to date. million dairy cows.
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Food Environment and Reporting Network
MARCH 27, 2024
In Elk Creek, Missouri, cattle stand in a pond to cool their fever caused by fescue toxicosis, which costs the beef industry as much as $2 billion a year in lost production. Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. The fear of failure is a big deal,” he said.
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ATTRA
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Sheep and cattle are their primary livestock, but they also have layers for eggs. Cattle Run Farm LLC: A Soil for Water Case Study Sarah Morton and Ralph Morton Greene County, Virginia Cattle Run Farm LLC is a third-generation, family-operated, and veteran-owned farm located in Greene County and the central Piedmont region of Virginia.
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RR2CS
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Rotational Grazing, Multi-Species Cropping, Relay Cropping, and the Future of Digital Collars for Cattle. By Trina Moyles Tim Wray grew up on his family’s cattle ranch in Irricana, a small town located 50 kilometres northeast of Calgary in southern Alberta. But they were just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
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Modern Farmer
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
I drove 10 hours round-trip for a three-hour conversation because he is a Western Slope cattle rancher who supports wolf reintroduction. “I A couple of the other partners’ interests were land conservation and low impact residential sites integrated into the agricultural and natural ecology of the ranch,” he said.
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Civil Eats
DECEMBER 26, 2023
This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture At Sakari Farms, Spring Alaska Schreiner maintains a seed bank, has launched a community kitchen, and teaches Native American youth traditional ecological knowledge. PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding. The Farm Bill This Farm Bill Really Matters.
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